Posted by: admin | October 24, 2011

New AmigaOne Netbook AmigaOS 4.1 compatible

This Saturday (22-Oct), Hyperion announced they are working in drivers for an OEM PowerPC based netbook already available. Drivers will be available in the 1Q-2012.

The only PowerPC based netbook in the market is the LimePC. http://www.limefree.org
The LimePc is based on a Freescale PowerPC MPC5121e processor

Other details:
– 400Mhz MPC5121e Processor
– 8,9″ TFT Screen (1024×600) -> Rumor: 12″ screen
– 256 Mb RAM -> Rumor: 512Mb
– HD: 4, 8 or 16 GB
– Wireless LAN
– Battery Li/Ion 3400 mAh
– Webcam 0.3 Megapixels
– Ports: 1xVGA, 2xUSB, 1xRJ45, 1xSD Card reader
– Powervr SGX 2D/3D graphics accelerator (the iPhone 3G graphic chip)
– Soundcard

This configuration could change in the commertial product, but this is a minimum base config. And the best: The Netbook price is 199$ http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Vodacom-Linkbook/

The Amiga branded Netbook will cost between 300 and 500$

Very good news!

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Responses

  1. Interesting, interesting=) Will be waiting=)

  2. Definitely interesting. šŸ™‚ I’m getting an AmigaOS 4 netbook for sure.


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